AI in Hiring Symposium

Keynote Speakers

Meriam Ali

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Senior
Career interest: Embedded Systems, AI
AI & hiring experience: I’ve used AI in my internships and have also been asked to talk about my AI experience in interviews; it’s become an important part of the hiring process
Uses AI for: Learning new concepts, email and resume refinement, note-taking
Leadership & Experience: President of Women in ECE, previously interned at Lenovo and John Deere

Sanjana Cheerla

Computer Science, PhD
Career interest: Applied AI, NLP, and building trustworthy AI systems that solve real-world problems - industry oriented.
AI & hiring experience: experience in developing AI powered tools for industry at AWS/Credit Karma and research. More specifically, fine-tuning models, neuro-symbolic AI, using AI as a judge, chaining models, RAG, and agentic AI.
Uses AI for: Coding, proofreading, Using AI as a reviewer to strengthen research manuscripts, automation of repetitive tasks, and making presentation slides in LaTeX.
Leadership & Experience: Computer Science Graduate Student Association President, PhD researcher in Applied AI and NLP, Teaching Assistant (HCI, ML (ALDA), Software Engineering, and Software Security) , and former 2x AWS Intern and Credit Karma Intern.

Sonali Chhaya

Business Analytics, Junior
Career interest: Business Analytics
AI & hiring experience: Knowing how to use AI to automate tasks, proofread, and trouble shoot makes you a more viable candidate. The issue is not doing the work, as more complex AI models are able to solve hard problems, the work lies in understanding how to correct AI solutions with a human touch.
Uses AI for: Resume refinement, EmaiL/Linkedin message editing, Job description/specification parsing
Leadership & Experience: Peer Career Coach, Poole Student Ambassador, 180 Degrees Consultant

Pablo Comino

Victor Hermida

Computer Science, Senior
Career interest: Software Engineer, Data Science
AI & hiring experience: AI is a new thing in technology, and any company will hire you if you know how to use it effectively.
Uses AI for: Learning new concepts, Research
Leadership & Experience: Ex-President of Latino Association of Computer Science, Computer Science Ambassador

Ryan Laraway

Business Analytics, Senior at William Peace University
Career interest: Accounting, Business Analytics, Consulting
AI & hiring experience: Small Businesses to Large corporations use of AI in hiring
Uses AI for: Troubleshooting formulas and workflows, automating repetitive tasks, summarizing complex information, improving written and visual deliverables.
Leadership & Experience: Student Body President, Dealership Accounting and Tax Intern, Small business consultant

Krys Woodruff Kris Woodruff

Chemical Engineering, 4th year
Career interest: Sales Engineering, Operations/Supply Chain
AI & hiring experience: In a world surrounded by data, learning how to use AI efficiently makes you a better asset to yourself and others
Uses AI for: Email restructuring/condensing, displaying large chunks of data in dashboards, notes history summary
Leadership & Experience: Previously interned at TSMC, Texas Instruments, ExxonMobil